Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Tornado in a bottle experiment
One for S1 to try before we start the next unit on Weather extremes. Make sure it doesn't leak or you make a real mess in the kitchen - no irn bru please!
Chocolate week
It's Chocolate Week, in case you needed an excuse for more chocolate. Here’s some information about different types we have mentioned in class.
• Traidcraft has been fighting poverty through trade, with all its profits going back to the producers. It has made a commitment to convert to sustainable palm oil for all of its products. Good news for the orang utangs.
• Divine Chocolate Kuapa Kokoo, the farmers' co-operative that produces the cocoa for Divine.
Outside of these ethical leaders, the chocolate trade is anything but sweet. More than a third of cocoa traded globally comes from Ivory Coast recently 54 children were rescued from slave labour, from its plantations. Violence in the country since 2002 has also been called the "chocolate war, with hundreds dying in conflicts over the cocoa trade.
In February, the Gates Foundation pledged £14.4m to examine conditions in the west African trade. Hershey, Kraft Foods and Mars have pledged a further £26.3m to the project. And since Cadbury's Dairy Milk brand went Fairtrade – things are perhaps looking up for these children and adults.
Chocolate is a good example of how ethical consumption can change things in the world. Even before Dairy Milk's decision sales of Fairtrade chocolate in the UK grew from £1m in 1998 to £26.8m in 2008. Cadbury's will be supplied by Kuapa Kokoo, the co-op that co-owns Divine. If it hadn’t been for Divine spending years working with farmers and educating people like us about this issue, there's no way Cadbury's could have changed to Fairtrade.
• Traidcraft has been fighting poverty through trade, with all its profits going back to the producers. It has made a commitment to convert to sustainable palm oil for all of its products. Good news for the orang utangs.
• Divine Chocolate Kuapa Kokoo, the farmers' co-operative that produces the cocoa for Divine.
Outside of these ethical leaders, the chocolate trade is anything but sweet. More than a third of cocoa traded globally comes from Ivory Coast recently 54 children were rescued from slave labour, from its plantations. Violence in the country since 2002 has also been called the "chocolate war, with hundreds dying in conflicts over the cocoa trade.
In February, the Gates Foundation pledged £14.4m to examine conditions in the west African trade. Hershey, Kraft Foods and Mars have pledged a further £26.3m to the project. And since Cadbury's Dairy Milk brand went Fairtrade – things are perhaps looking up for these children and adults.
Chocolate is a good example of how ethical consumption can change things in the world. Even before Dairy Milk's decision sales of Fairtrade chocolate in the UK grew from £1m in 1998 to £26.8m in 2008. Cadbury's will be supplied by Kuapa Kokoo, the co-op that co-owns Divine. If it hadn’t been for Divine spending years working with farmers and educating people like us about this issue, there's no way Cadbury's could have changed to Fairtrade.
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Happy ending?
Thanks to Tony Cassidy on twitter for this one.
Is there a happy ending?........All depend on you.
Is there a happy ending?........All depend on you.
Population Satistics explained
Just a wee video here which explains things quite clearly for Higher.
Population growth explained
Population growth explained
Sunday, 4 October 2009
Earthquakes
I have been really behind this week and haven't blogged about the dreadful events in Samoa and Indonesia. Tweets taking up too much of my time these days! Here is a brief summary of the events. Thousands of people may have died in remote areas when a powerful earthquake struck Sumatra. Australian, British, Japanese and South Korean rescuers have arrived in Indonesia and European countries and Russia are also sending help. As usual lots of fantastic info on the BBC website on this week’s activities. See link here. S2 in particular should look at this as we will be examining this over the next few months. Some short videos on this here too from the BBC.
Moments after the Sumatra quake
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8287159.stm
Whole areas flattened by quake
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8288588.stm
Inside a destroyed village in Sumatra
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8288644.stm
Close to the epicentre in Sumatra
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8288227.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8287159.stm
Whole areas flattened by quake
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8288588.stm
Inside a destroyed village in Sumatra
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8288644.stm
Close to the epicentre in Sumatra
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8288227.stm
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